Foreign
Film
Gold Medal: "Miss Todd," Kristina Yee, National Film
and Television School, United Kingdom
Silver Medal: "Parvaneh,"
Talkhon Hamzavi, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
Bronze
Medal: "Tweesprong (Crossroads)," Wouter Bouvijn, RITS School of
Arts, Erasmus University College Brussels, Belgium

This
year saw first-time honors go to Elon University, Occidental College
and the University of Michigan in the U.S. competition, as well as to
Zurich University of the Arts and RITS School of Arts, Erasmus
University College Brussels, in the foreign competition.

The
Student Academy Awards were established in 1972 to support and
encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past
Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar
nominations and have won or shared eight awards. The roster includes
such distinguished filmmakers as John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert
Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.